[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 11:39:35 EDT 2014


My cap is 300Gb, and I typically use about 10% of it


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:31 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> Or pay the $65/month for a business connection. No caps there.
>
> If they aren't tracking it today, and it ever becomes an issue, we can be
> certain they will track it next year.
>
> OTOH, the current caps are really huge for most streaming wants aren't
> they.  It
> is only the BT-1080p group that has issues.  Or am I wrong?
>
> On 06/02/2014 11:10 AM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > Yeah - I was thinking that if they did not track it at all, my neighbor
> and I
> > could avoid any caps by using each others' xfinitywifi connection...
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com
> > <mailto:bugyatl at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Try downloading big ISO throughout xfinity wireless and check your
> >     statistics on Comcast customer page to make sure.
> >
> >     On Jun 2, 2014 11:02 AM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:bugyatl at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         As far I did some testing these are separate in separate subnets
> and
> >         etc. Download speeds are independent so I guess xfinity does not
> count
> >         against your traffic.
> >
> >         On Jun 2, 2014 10:58 AM, "David Ritchie" <deritchie at gmail.com
> >         <mailto:deritchie at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >             So will there be bandwidth caps on the 'shared' connection?
> What if
> >             you connect to the 'xfinititywidi' connection instead of the
> local
> >             SID? Does it count against your 250 GB bandwidth cap?
> >
> >             -- David
> >
> >
> >
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